Java GSS Command Line Interface Client (JGSSCLI)¶

JGSSCLI is a command line for GSS, and in particular the Pithos online storage service.

It is open source and released under the terms of the BSD licence.

Why JGSSCLI?¶

• JGSSCLI is portable; it runs wherever a Java Virtual Machine runs. GSS and Pithos are accesible through web browsers and plugins, but these offer only a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Sometimes a command line application is more appropriate. Command like users may appreciate the choice anyway.

• JGSSCLI is predictable; it runs in the same way on any platform supporting Java. This is not necessarily true for other types of access to GSS. For instance, browsers may impose their own limits on certain operations, such as maximum file size for uploads. Indeed, we have noticed that really big files can only be uploaded by 64-bit browsers on 64-bit operating systems. JGSSCLI does not suffer from any such dependencies.

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